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Heinz von Foerster and the Mansfield Amendment
Heinz von Foerster was the founder and director of the Biological Computer Laboratory (BCL) at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. BCL existed from 1957 to 1976. In 1976 Heinz retired and moved to California. One revealing story about Heinz and the Biological Computer Laboratory concerns the Mansfield Amendment, which led to the closing of BCL. I was a graduate student at the Univer...
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Reproduced below, with a few small edits, is a paper I wrote in 1979 for the International Cybernetics Newsletter, as part of its ‘founding fathers of cybernetics’ series (Scott, 1979). I offer it here as a contribution to this special issue of C&HK because (i) I believe my younger self did quite a good job of overviewing von Foerster’s career (recall, he ‘retired’ in 1976) and (ii) the article...
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To operate with (or in, or from) the discipline of cybernetics is to engage with the concepts and guides-to-action elucidated by Heinz von Foerster. It is impossible for us to do otherwise, because his work “stands under” the praxis of circular-causal reasoning, second-order thinking-acting, and ethical viewpoints. Elucidate is a fitting word because it comes from a root meaning to shine a li...
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On a cold day between Christmas and New Year 1961, in search of a place to study, I met Heinz in his office at the Biological Computer Laboratory. I knew of him through a network of designers who, like me, were interested in issues that conventional curricula did not address. Heinz greeted me, a total stranger, with the enthusiasm usually reserved for an old friend. To my surprise, he knew of t...
متن کاملHeinz von Foerster and the second-order cybernetics Œ Emergence: Complexity and Organization
This issue of E:CO is reprinting a classic paper by Heinz von Foerster, one of the key players in the formation and development of cybernetics. Von Foerster was an Austrian/American engineer, scientist, science expositor, philosopher, and cultural commentator (rather than listing each reference which would render this document unwieldy, history of cybernetics were taken from Heims1, Kline2, Dup...
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عنوان ژورنال: Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1619-4993,2195-9617
DOI: 10.12946/rg02/161-167